NOW Magazine “Hoarding” of vaccines is ruining global COVID effort World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says "vaccine nationalism" of rich nations is "self-defeating" By Enzo DiMatteo World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Canada’s rollout of the coronavirus vaccine is meeting with some sharp criticism from some of the usual suspects in the Ottawa press corp. Last week, the Globe went big with a story on how Canada was the only G7 country to be drawing on world supplies meant for low and middle-income countries through the World Health Organization’s Vaccine Global Access Facility, or COVAX. That’s part of the WHO’s effort to deliver “fair, equitable and timely access to COVID-19 vaccines.”